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Political Economy of the Environment

By: Simon Dietz,Jonathan Michie,Christine Oughton

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Political Economy of the Environment

By: Simon Dietz,Jonathan Michie,Christine Oughton

This book is the culmination of several years work by a group of academics, policy-makers and other professionals looking to understand how alternative economic thinking – and indeed thinking from quite different social-scientific disciplines – could enhance the mainstream economic approach to environmental and natural-resource problems. Of the editors, Dietz comes from the mainstream economics tradition, while Michie and Oughton draw explicitly on institutional and evolutionary economics. The various authors represent a range of disciplinary backgrounds and approaches. This book draws on the strengths of each and all of these approaches to analyse environmental issues and what can be done to tackle these through corporate and public policy. The book argues that the need for an inter-disciplinary approach. Two themes which emerge repeatedly throughout the book are the need for an interdisciplinary theory of technological change, and the need for a similarly interdisciplinary approach to the study of human behaviour and how it influences both production and consumption choices. The two themes are of course related. Resolving environmental questions requires an understanding of their nature, of their causes and, to the extent that they are anthropogenic, of how to change human behaviour. These fundamental issues are the focus of the four chapters that form Part 1 of this volume. The remainder of the volume develops them in more detail. .

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1136823972

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Globalising Worlds and New Economic Configurations

By: Christine Tamasy

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Globalising Worlds and New Economic Configurations

By: Christine Tamasy

Over the last few decades, circuits of capital have been stretched through processes of economic globalization, leading to complex and hybrid outcomes that result in different modes of production and consumption. Understanding these new economic configurations and their geographic patterns requires incorporating new theoretical arguments based on, for example, chain and network concepts. This edited volume brings together theoretically-informed analysis from Asia, Europe and North America to illustrate the way in which new economic configurations have been developed and to understand individual, local and regional responses to a variety of global challenges, threats and opportunities. The different examples presented illustrate that economic structures and flows have changed dramatically over the past decades with profound impacts for the economic and regional actors involved.

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289

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Routledge

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1351157302

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Regional Resilience, Economy and Society

Globalising Rural Places

By: Christine Tamásy,Javier Revilla Diez

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Regional Resilience, Economy and Society

Globalising Rural Places

By: Christine Tamásy,Javier Revilla Diez

There has been a great deal of restructuring of rural places and communities under globalisation, highlighting the interaction of local and global actors to produce new hybrid socio-economic relations. Recent research highlights the heterogeneity of globalisation in which rural places are different to each other, but also different to how they were in the past. Bringing together an interdisciplinary team of academics, and comparative case studies from Europe (West and East) and Asia, this book explores and discusses opportunities and challenges associated with globalising rural places, and identifies possibilities for policy and practical intervention by rural development actors. Special attention is paid to multi-scalar processes through which rural places are reshaped through globalisation. Taking a geographical approach, the book produces new critical work on the interdependence between globalisation and rural spaces. It is organised into five sections: Part I focuses on ’Global-Rural Linkages’ showing the multifaceted interrelation between actors at different geographical scale and demonstrating that globalisation is not only external to rural spaces. Part II on ’Rural Entrepreneurship and Labour Markets’ explores the potential of business start-ups in rural spaces which are not only necessity driven. Part III ’Rural Innovation and Learning’ shows that rural places are also places for innovation and learning. Part IV on ’Rural Policies and Governance’ argues that regional policies for rural places should promote side activities to maintain social capital and that regional policy should take a more integrative perspective between urban and rural spaces in order to explore complementary development paths. The concluding chapter ’New Approaches to Rural Spaces’ discusses new approaches to globalising rural places in relation to the preceding chapters published in this book.

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131706903X

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Innovation in the Anthropological Perspective

Insights and Consequences for the Theory, Practice, and Design of Innovating

By: Julia C. Gluesing,Christine Miller,Helga Wild

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Innovation in the Anthropological Perspective

Insights and Consequences for the Theory, Practice, and Design of Innovating

By: Julia C. Gluesing,Christine Miller,Helga Wild

Innovation is a constant in human life and organization, arising from within a context-based culture of social structures and beliefs. This book re-examines the processes, practices, and mechanisms of innovation from an anthropological perspective, offering a theory of innovation as a dynamic multidimensional system. It uses methods and stories across a broad arc of time, place, social and cultural context, and subject matter. The chapters explore the intersection of virtual, local, and global dynamics and deepen our understanding of aspects and dimensions of innovation that challenge common perceptions, particularly in business and organizational environments. The approach aims to situate innovation in an integrated view of human and non-human ecologies, and to create common ground for a new form of research and practice.

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158

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Taylor & Francis

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1040032052

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Study Guide for Stiglitz and Driffill's Economics

By: Christine P. Oughton,Lawrence W. Martin

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Study Guide for Stiglitz and Driffill's Economics

By: Christine P. Oughton,Lawrence W. Martin

This guide to Stiglitz and Driffill's Economics looks at the concepts underlying each chapter, and how to use economic tools and techniques on a range of problems. Chapter reviews are followed by closer analysis and "Tools and Practice Problems" to help students apply their knowledge.

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W. W. Norton

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0393975851

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9780393975857

Political Economy of the Environment

An Interdisciplinary Approach

By: Simon Dietz,Jonathan Michie,Christine Oughton

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Political Economy of the Environment

An Interdisciplinary Approach

By: Simon Dietz,Jonathan Michie,Christine Oughton

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1136823980

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Intermediate Microeconomics

A Perspective on Price Theory

By: Frederick George Hay,Christine Oughton,Andrew S. Skinner

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Intermediate Microeconomics

A Perspective on Price Theory

By: Frederick George Hay,Christine Oughton,Andrew S. Skinner

As well as providing a thorough treatment of the key elements of price theory for second-year students of microeconomics, this textbook also presents a distinctive perspective on the material, embedding these elements in a sustained analytical argument linking price theory to the study of industry. This perspective is valuable for economics and business students in both second and third years of study." "Starting from a Paretian stand-point, the argument develops the logic of individual choice and its implications for interdependent consumers and producers, and reviews the efficiency conditions appropriate to a general equilibrium framework. This is then used to derive the corresponding Marshallian functions, allowing the conditions for a competitive equilibrium to be established. The argument proceeds to consider different market structures, establishing the relevance for the study of oligopoly of game theoretic approaches: a chapter is devoted entirely to game theory, including repeated games and theories of rational choice." "The book has several distinctive features: a stress on the interdependence between output and employment decisions; an explicit focus on E. H. Chamberlin's analysis of monopolistic competition; an unobtrusive historical dimension; parallel diagrammatic and mathematical treatments of optimisation; linkages with classical macroeconomics; and an emphasis on the implications of time and uncertainty."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Manchester University Press

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0719045819

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Political Economy of the Environment

Political Economy of the Environment

Globalising Worlds and New Economic Configurations

Globalising Worlds and New Economic Configurations

Regional Resilience, Economy and Society

Regional Resilience, Economy and Society

Innovation in the Anthropological Perspective

Innovation in the Anthropological Perspective

Study Guide for Stiglitz and Driffill's Economics

Study Guide for Stiglitz and Driffill's Economics

Political Economy of the Environment

Political Economy of the Environment

Intermediate Microeconomics

Intermediate Microeconomics

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